Pool of workers on Cloud 9, but not in over their heads

What’s the secret to success for a company that made BizWest’s Mercury 100 list of fastest-growing companies for a possibly unprecedented sixth time in a row?

“We work hard and play hard,” said John Augst, co-founder and president of Boulder-based Cloud 9 Living LLC. “We know we have to work hard to create these good times.”

Good times indeed, if their antics at the May 22 Mercury 100 awards event at the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield were any indication. Seizing on offhand comments by employees Shea Brazill and Alan Barber, who said they’d jump into the Omni’s outdoor pool for $100,…